A MURDER hunt is underway following the fatal stabbing of a father of three from East Ham in a pub car park on Saturday night.

Peter Jones, 38, was involved in a row outside the Victoria pub on Victoria Dock Road, Custom House at around 10.15pm on Saturday. He died on Monday morning in hospital. A 20 year-old friend was also injured in the attack.

The suspect is described as of mixed race, 6ft 3ins tall and between 30-35 years old.

A man has been convicted of three counts of rape and jailed for ten years following a lengthy trial at Birmingham Crown Court.
Dahir Ibrahim, 21, a Somalian national, who lived in Smethwick, raped street sex workers at knifepoint in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham.

Biggest drugs haul: Pair sent to prison
TWO gang members arrested after police found imported cannabis resin worth up to £172,000 - Lancashire's biggest seizure of the drug - at a Burnley house have been jailed.

A SUSPECTED thief drowned as he tried to find a bag of cash he had dumped in a canal after mugging a businesswoman. An inquest heard that the bag had already been recovered by police and the victim's husband. Maraizu Anyanwu, 18, from Mowbray Avenue, Prestwich, was overcome by the cold after climbing into Rochdale Canal.http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....cash_hunt.html
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A COUNCILLOR is under police investigation as part of a large scale probe into a suspected drugs ring. Brierfield Town councillor Mazer Iqbal, 36, was arrested as part of Operation Hornbeam -- an investigation in to the alleged smuggling, production and supply of drugs to East Lancashire. Coun Iqbal, of Halifax Road, Brierfield, was arrested when raids were carried out in pubs in Accrington and Oswaldtwistle.http://www.lancashireeveningtelegrap...rugs_probe.php
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The first Asian mayor for the city of Peterborough, in Cambridgeshire, has been charged in connection with allegations of vote rigging. Former councillor Mohammed Choudhary, 47, from Peterborough, has been charged with conspiracy to defraud and forgery, police said on Wednesday. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/c...re/4799229.stm
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A couple were assaulted by thieves they caught trying to steal guitars from their car.
The pair were awoken by the sound of the vehicle being broken into on Saturday outside their Pershore home. They were assaulted when they chased the thieves and later needed medical treatment. Both men, possibly Asian, appeared casually dressed. One was wearing a bomber-type jacket and the other was wearing tracksuit bottoms.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/h...cs/4793999.stm
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Masked men armed with a meat cleaver and a knife broke into a family's home in Lancashire. The attackers went into the detached house in Manchester Road, Accrington, on Wednesday morning. The men are described as being Asian, aged between 17 and their early 20s, and of slight to medium build.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/l...re/4800109.stm

A Home Office investigation had concluded a London minicab driver was "actively engaged" in the support of the Iraqi insurgency, a court was told. Woolwich Crown Court was told Rauf Mohammed took part in "anti-coalition activity" on a visit to Iraq in 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4798823.stm
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A man accused of committing genocide during the massacres in Rwanda in 1994 has been found in the UK. Emmanuel Nteziryayo has been living as an asylum seeker in Manchester under a false name. Mr Nteziryayo has denied the accusation and told the BBC he fought the militia groups who carried out the killingshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...er/4797001.stm
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ANTI-TERROR police have arrested the sons of a man who founded a Dagenham based charity. Crescent Relief, which helps victims of conflicts and natural disasters, has its office in Chadwell Heath Industrial Park, Kemp Road. It was set up in 2001 by Abdul Rauf - the father of Rashid Rauf, who was arrested in Pakistan, and Tayib Rauf, who is being held in Birmingham.http://www.bdpost.co.uk/content/bark...A13%3A56%3A797
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A MAN has denied of the murder of a pensioner whose body was exhumed months after his death. Mustapha Abdullah, 40, appeared before Wolverhampton Crown Court yesterday charged with the murder of 69-year-old Mervyn Fletcher, from Willenhall. He was also charged with robbing Mr Fletcher of his bank and building society cards.http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/...name_page.html
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EAGLE-EYED residents who spotted a flourishing cannabis factory in their street have been praised by a court judge. Neighbours in Rees Gardens, Croydon, reported their suspicions to police, who eventually raided the house. Cam Luu, 44, tried to escape, but was caught at the back door on June 1 this year.http://iccroydon.icnetwork.co.uk/new...name_page.html

A FORMER bus driver who lured a woman with sham job adverts so he could rape her faces years behind bars. Saeied Mohammed Nejad, 38, placed a "housekeeper wanted" sign in Loot magazine hoping to trap women. He then raped a 24-year-old woman who replied.http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk...name_page.html
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A MAN who raped a teenager who had been waiting at a bus stop in Lewisham High Street has been jailed for five years. Fatah Debeoussi, also known as Nabal Yagoubi, struck on April 9 last year. The 18-year-old victim was led into an alley where she was raped.http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk...name_page.html
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RAIDERS stole cash and travellers' cheques worth thousands of pounds from a travel agent's shop in East Grinstead. Police are appealing for witnesses after the two men targeted Going Places on August 9. A witness believed one of the men was carrying a gun in his pocket. Both suspects are described as black, in their mid-20s,of a medium build, more than 6ft tall, and wearing headgear.http://icsurreyonline.icnetwork.co.u...name_page.html
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A WOMAN was robbed of her car at gunpoint at a petrol station in Bradford. The 31-year-old was filling up her Mercedes S320, registration V847GBA, at the Total station at Staithgate roundabout on Rooley Avenue at 11.30pm on Sunday when two men approached her, one of whom was holding a gun. The pair drove off in the the car. The woman, while not injured, was left shaken. The two robbers were Asian.http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/View...icleID=1698064

A CRUEL teenager tied plastic bags around the heads of two children and rubbed pepper sauce into their eyes to "discipline" them, a court heard. It was said Ogazi Chiagorom, 18, of East Ham, has no understanding of the torment she caused to a nine-year-old boy and his ten-year-old sister when she was looking after them at their home.http://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/cont...A10%3A05%3A307
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A man offered to pay three young girls to take their trousers down and kiss him, a jury heard. Arjan Jesa allegedly promised to give them £5 or £10 for showing their knickers and £20 for a kiss. He said, if they pulled their pants down, they could go in his car, it was claimed.http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.u...pNodeId=132393

A man accused of conspiring to steal cars from a compound containing £40 million worth of vehicles has been remanded in custody. Mohammed Jamil (35) is accused of conspiracy to steal motor vehicles from the 650-acre Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground, near Lutterworth, with two other men, between November 11 and 13 last year.http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.u...pNodeId=132393

TWO Swindon men have appeared in court accused of attacking a man with a baseball bat and snooker cue. Andrej Takac, 22, of Ponting Street and Marek Roznovjak, 23, of County Road, have been charged with assault causing actual bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon.http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/new...ulting_man.php

A WOMAN was attacked with a metal pole in a violent street robbery. The assault happened as the victim and another woman were walking through Toothill at the weekend. The pair were in Beaumaris Road when a man approached them from behind. PC Claire Pennells, of Swindon police, said that the one of the women was carrying a mobile phone and purse in her hand and the mugger ordered her to drop the articles. The suspect is described as a black man. He was wearing a black hooded top with the hood up and black Adidas tracksuit bottoms.http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/new..._is_mugged.php

A TEENAGER has been assaulted by a gang while he was walking near Coate Water. The incident happened on Saturday, August 12 at around 9.30pm as the white teenager was heading home along Queens Drive, near to the Coate Water roundabout. He was attacked by a group of five black males who got out of an old-style Ford Fiesta, which was playing loud music and had a loud exhaust.http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/new...ng_of_five.php
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DETECTIVES investigating a serious sexual assault in a Cambridge club say witnesses have given them several new leads.

A 19-year-old woman was subjected to a terrifying attack at Twenty Two, formerly Life nightclub, in Hobson's Passage, Cambridge, when a man followed her into the women's toilets and cornered her in a cubicle.

The attacker is Asian, about 25, around 5ft 9in, of medium build, with a round face and some stubble, and was wearing dark blue jeans and a blue T-shirt with a white logo, possibly a number, on the front.

His companion was also Asian and is believed to have been wearing a red T-shirt.

Anyone else with information about the attack, or the man involved, should contact

A gunman has threatened two women during a robbery at a Derby bookmakers. Derbyshire police said a masked man entered a Ladbrokes betting shop on Normanton Road on Thursday evening and waved a gun at the two employees. He escaped with a large amount of cash. Neither of the two staff members were injured, but both women were upset by the incident. The robber was described as Asian, wearing a black balaclava and a tracksuit top.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/d...re/5262054.stm
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A 14-year-old girl was sexually assaulted as she searched for her handbag in a park. The victim had been with her friends in Rectory Park in Sutton Coldfield when she realised she had mislaid the item. During her search she encountered an Asian youth with several other young men and was dragged into a wooded area and assaulted by up to three of them. The youth is described as aged about 17, slim, 5ft 6in tall with spiky black hair. The group fled after the attack.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/w...ds/4801293.stm
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A BIRMINGHAM taxi driver was today beginning a six year jail sentence for the brutal rape of a 16-year-old girl passenger. Private hire driver Ghulam Haider collected the student from her boyfriend's house but drove her to a derelict church graveyard where he attacked her. The father-of-four, 49, of Augusta Road, Acocks Green, was jailed after a jury found him guilty of indecent assault and rape at Birmingham Crown Court yesterday.http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/...name_page.html
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A BULL terrier savaged a teenage boy so badly in a Coventry street shocked onlookers said the youngster looked like he'd been "attacked by a shark". At Coventry Crown Court Atif Khan, of Dorset Road, Radford, Coventry, was jailed for 16 weeks for not controlling the dog properly. He pleaded guilty to being in control of a dog that caused injury, in contravention of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, and was ordered to pay £3,000 compensation to the young victimhttp://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/01...name_page.html
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A violent midnight brawl involving four men in Stockton town centre ended with one in hospital with stab wounds. It resulted in a fight between a white male and a black male. The violence escalated as the scuffle moved into a nearby alley. A second black male was then seen to go to the aid of his friend, say police. "Seconds later the white male staggered into the street bleeding heavily from a stab wound to his leg," said a police spokesman. He collapsed and was taken to North Tees Hospital for emergency surgery."http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/ne...name_page.html
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Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was sexually assaulted as she walked to Whitton Station. The 47-year-old woman catches the train from Whitton to her place of work regularly and on Thursday, August 3, as she walked along High Street at 6.10am she had a felling she was being followed. She noticed an eastern European man who was 5ft 8ins tall, of stocky build and with short dark blue hair. He was wearing a royal blue sweatshirt and trousers.http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtime...ped_by_man.php
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Police have issued a CD fit of a man who they want to question in connection with an assault on a taxi driver. The driver picked up a man and a woman from Edensor Square, Derby, and took them to Ashworth Avenue, Chaddesden. Police said that the woman got out and the man paid part of the fare before punching the 28-year- old driver in the face. The incident happened at about 1.15am on Friday, July 21. The man is described by police as being of mixed race and aged 18 to 20.http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/di...pNodeId=124522
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A 26-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to managing a brothel in Cheltenham. Siew Chong, of Rotunda Terrace, Montpellier, admitted running the brothel from a flat in Wellington Street. She managed prostitutes there between July 17 and 20. At Cheltenham Magistrates' Court, prosecutor Alistair Mitchell said that before Chong's arrest police noticed a mobile phone number in an advert for personal services. When they phoned the number they got the address where Chong was foundhttp://www.thisisgloucestershire.co....pNodeId=138494
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A Pair of purse thieves may have struck again. A couple described as of Asian origin distracted a pensioner in the Wilkinson store in Merrywalks, Stroud, and took her purse. When she realised it had gone, at around 10.15am yesterday, the pair fled. The burgundy purse contained a small amount of cash and loose change.http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co....pNodeId=138494
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A terrified teenager was forced to perform a sex act on a robber after being targeted in a Leicester street, a jury was told. The 16-year-old, who cannot be named, was walking down St James Street in the city when he was called over by three men. They pulled him into the doorway of a fitness club and robbed him of his wallet, mobile phone, lighter and belt, it was claimed.

A court heard that the teenager ran off but was approached again by one of the three, Shucyb Mohammed Osman, on Humberstone Gate. Osman allegedly told him he would get the items back if he followed him - but moments later forced the teenager to perform a sex act on him.http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.u...pNodeId=132393
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A man who supplied about £130 of cannabis a day has been spared jail after a judge accepted he was dealing only to his friends. Leicester Crown Court heard how Gautum Karavadrawas found with 3.6 grams of the drug when police raided his house last December. Officers also discovered scales, clingfilm and a list of names and addresses - plus a number of incriminating texts on his mobile phone.http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.u...pNodeId=132387
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Three bogus hospital workers who earned thousands of pounds from the largest-ever NHS payroll scam were each jailed for 12 months yesterday.

Elizabeth Adekunle, 40, Olukemi Hassan, 39, and Kehinde Oworu, 50, allowed their bank accounts to be used to defraud the NHS of £600,000. As part of the scheme, Joy Henry, a hospital manager at King's College Hospital NHS Trust, created "ghost employees", among them the three defendants, and paid them salaries before taking a substantial cut for herself. To cover her tracks, she deleted the phantom shifts from the payroll system after the wages had been paid to the bogus workers, Southwark Crown Court heard.